Karlee Young Character Analysis

Karlee Young, you are a very important person with a lot of value. Of course you did not know this three years ago. From being a dancer since age 3, to playing years of volleyball and other sports, you never have had to deal with not liking yourself. I mean you were the most popular girl in the 7th grade. Well that all changed for you when you stopped playing sports and got into 8th grade. It all seemed impossible from there. You started gaining weight and did not have many friends left. You felt ugly, misunderstood, gross, alone, scared and so many more emotions. You felt like it was all going downhill from there. Your lack of feeling worth anything affected your attitude at home, which made your parents not appreciate your presents. You …show more content…
You made the basketball team, but unfortunately had the most miserable time of your life. It was horrible for you. From bad coaches to unfair training, to just simply hating the sport, you decided to cut it off. After that, you went back to dance due to physical education credit at school. You did not mind it, but still did not bring you joy. After not playing volleyball for so long, you did not make the volleyball team those next years. It took a big part of your confidence, which made you give up entirely. It was hard for you to keep trying something that was filing year after year. Due to the lack of sports, you did not engage in any physical activity at all for the next few years. That 's when you started to gain weight. The weight stressed you out, which made you eat your feelings away. You had lost so many friends, shallow friends I add. You were no longer popular. The school you went to had grown almost 4 times in size just within those few years. You knew nobody. You would find any excuse to not go to school because you were just so terrified and miserable. By the summer of 2013, you weighed almost 200 lbs, at a height of 5 '3. You were overweight, unhappy, socially unaccepted and saw no reason to be happy. Dark thoughts ran through your mind constantly. Luckily, there was always a little voice in you stopping you from listening to those thoughts. You were unhealthy and just wanted to feel happy again. You tried diet after diet, exercise after exercise to change your body. You HATED your body. You were ashamed that you let it get this way. It was hard to get up in the morning and face people with that fake smile you wore so often. That same year, just as you thought things were over for you, you broke down in front of someone you love, your dad. He had never known that you were in so much pain. He did what any good father would do and set up a plan to make you